Monday night was the first happy hour with work people in some time, and Monday nights always mean Petite Abeille and half price Belgian beer all night. The bartender recognizes me, even though it was only the third time I'd been there in about five months ( Read more... )

The damn show down is tonight. And I'm absolutely exhausted. Not my favorite way to walk into this ( Read more... )

I don't have to have alcohol. I like it, sure. I don't like being drunk. I do not have to be drunk or even tipsy to have fun. It very obviously makes me more talkative, but that doesn't mean I'm having a better time than I would have without it. I do not plan to go out only to drink and think the night sucks if I can't ( Read more... )

At work today, I noticed similarities between bosses and their employees. Specifically, I noticed striking similarities between bosses and the assistants or interns that work directly under them and with them ( Read more... )

Galt's Gulch?

I now have a 9-to-5 job. I never wanted one, but it was never the case that I blatantly didn't want one. I just wanted something to do that I would enjoy and I now have that. I was only working 20 hours a week, nice and lazy. Now, with the new position starting earlier than expected (due to the earlier than expected maternity leave of a co-worker/ ( Read more... )

For the time being, all health issues have subsided. In addition, I officially have my first salary job ever. Looks like I'll be at the DOHMH for another couple of years.

The tune came in not through his ears but his skin, which erupted in goose-pimples all over; 'twas as if his blood were oil, and fire had been laid to it, and serrated flames ( Read more... )

He looked down through the darkness for his hands. No planet, no universe is greater to a man than his own ego, his own observing self. These hands were the hands of all history, and like the hands of all men, they could by their small acts make human history or end it. Whether this power of hands was that of a billion hands, or whether it came to ( Read more... )

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It has been a year of falling apart ( Read more... )